In his works on the intellectual history of the 19th century, the German-Baltic cultural historian Viktor Hehn (1813–1890), whose books were widely read as part of popular classic literature among the educated German middle class down to the years after WW II, repeatedly referred to the death of Goethe as the beginning of the “Jewish era.“ That caesura in 1832...

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This blog accompanies the international Symposium “Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective”. This Symposium will take place from 21st to 23rd October 2015 in Paris and will be organized by the Max Weber Foundation and its institutes (German Historical Institutes London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Warsaw, Washington, the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris, the Orient Institute Istanbul) as well as the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin.